Clarification
Amy Lynn Estes, a local hairdresser, is not the Amy Estes who has been recently named in the District Court Docket.
Judge Linda Armstrong heard the following cases during Anderson District Court proceedings on December 29, 2011.
Morgan R. Aldridge, arraignment, operating a motor vehicle under the influence, buy/possess drug paraphernalia, operating on suspended/revoked operator’s license – pleaded not guilty, pretrial conference Jan. 5.

The Anderson County Retired Teachers will meet Feb. 10 at Foliage Restaurant at noon.
Lunch will be provided.

The Kentucky Stamp Club to meet Feb. 11
The February meeting of the Kentucky Stamp Club will be Feb. 11 at 2 p.m. at Memorial Baptist Church, 130 Holmes St., Frankfort.
A game called “Stamp Bingo” will be featured and prizes related to stamp collecting will be given.
For more information, call Breck Pegram at 502-403-8788.

State Rep. Kim King’s hopes of being able to run for re-election here and in Mercer and Spencer counties took another leap forward late Tuesday afternoon when a Franklin Circuit Judge tossed out controversial House Bill 1.
That bill, passed earlier this year and signed into law by Gov. Steve Beshear, would have pushed King out of Anderson County because it divided her home county of Mercer.
In his ruling, Judge Phillip Shepherd ordered that the filing deadline for House and Senate be extended once again, this time until Feb. 10.

By Tara Kaprowy
Kentucky Health News
Prescription drug abuse has become so prevalent in parts of Kentucky, people are buying Mason jars of clean urine at flea markets and under the table at tobacco stores so they can pass drug tests.
Almost two-thirds of Kentuckians have used prescription drugs for non-prescription reasons, 30 percentage points higher than the rest of the country.

The public library’s board of trustees should hang on to its available money, halt its expansion plans and not go into debt, Judge-Executive John Wayne Conway said during Tuesday’s meeting of the Anderson County Fiscal Court.
Conway said he hoped the fiscal court would join him in sending a message to the library board in the form of a vote to encourage it to reserve its funds, pending the outcome of a lawsuit sweeping across northern Kentucky.

A couple of years ago, some friends of mine reported this experience on Valentine’s Day.
The husband forgot to make dinner reservations. The couple tried several nice restaurants but found that they were booked. Then they went to a family restaurant of a national chain. They enjoyed their dinner, had fun talking, laughing about experiences they had and celebrated being together for 23 years.